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As we approach the New Year 2021, we are happy to
report that our new EM Pulser 78 (Schumann Resonance 7.8 Hz) has
had record sales exceeding 125 and we have fulfilled 98% of the
backorders, so finally, we can ship new orders readily. My
Coast to Coast AM appearance caused the biggest surge
in electrotherapy orders that we have ever experienced, compared
to my last two
appearances. It may be that the senior listeners want to
relieve pain. Since it provides a pleasant 7.8 Hz
surrounding pulsed magnetic field (which you can also see visibly
in the green LED), we have tried keeping it near the body, even
while sleeping. There is evidence that this frequency of weak
signal PEMF will offer “cardioprotection” against stress and also
entrain the brain’s alpha rhythm, as if we are outside in the
wilderness, away from city electropollution, besides activating
the HSP70 chaperone protein that remarkably combats inflammation. Try
one out today with a 30-day money back guarantee if it doesn’t
work for you.
Story #1
is the tip of the iceberg for the biggest energy news to share
with you. There is a quiet hydrogen revolution which no media
seems to be covering and now even Pratt & Whitney are getting
on the band wagon for hydrogen powered airplanes. There also is a
nice development in “green hydrogen” that has little or no carbon
footprint, as Hydrogen Fuel News reports this month with numerous
developments:
Story #2 reminds me of a product we learned about
decades ago called “Sonic Bloom” which used sound frequencies to
stimulate plant growth. However, now we have a university study
behind the latest electromagnetic stimulation method in the
Megahertz range of weak signal pulsed EMF (PEMF) frequencies
having beneficial effects on seedlings. We note that much lower
frequency weak PEMF also biologically benefits humans.
Story #3
gives us the update on solar cells as they increase in efficiency
toward the theoretical limit, with a new crystalline material.
Two universities have developed the bilayer cells. More
information: Faiz Ahmad et al, “Double-absorber
thin-film solar cell with 34% efficiency,” Applied
Physics Letters (2020). DOI:
10.1063/5.0017916
Story #4 offers a new insight into one of my
favorite energy storage media, the phase change material (PCM).
By changing from a solid to liquid and back, around the
temperature of interest, such material can outperform any
insulation by an order of magnitude (10x). While this story
offers an explanation of how it works, the practical sources for
home owners include BioPCM www.phasechange.com which
is one of the best; PCMproducts www.pcmproducts.net ;
Smarter Building Materials www.syndego.net ;
and for large building makeovers, http://insolcorppcm.com/ InsolCorpPCM
who only works with those who want to use the passive PCM to
avoid air conditioning a warehouse for example (I met the CEO at
a trade show and he guarantees his one inch thick material to
keep a building within a couple degrees of 70F even if the
outside temperature goes down to freezing or up above 90F).
Story #5
addresses the latest surge in United Nations and other
organizations’ interest in increasing food production for the
future population increase (which has doubled twice since 1950),
expected to reach 11 billion by 2100. Vertical farming
indoors is really the only solution as proven by AeroFarms
(see January 2020 Future Energy eNews under “News” on our
website) who have achieved 390x the yield with 95% less water and
with no herbicides, pesticides, etc. Now finally, they are
receiving well-deserved multimillion dollar grants to help the
international community. This is the future of food production.
Wishing
everyone a Happy New Year!
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1) Time for Hydrogen Powered Flight
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The
Economist December 2020
In the
swamps of 1950s Florida, a loud roaring occasionally disturbed
the serenity of the local alligators. Under conditions of
strictest secrecy, engineers from Pratt & Whitney, an
aerospace company, were testing a new type of engine that was
powered by a strange substance apparently piped in from a
fertiliser plant in the nearby town of Apix. In reality, the town
was just a name on a map and the fertiliser plant was a ruse to
fool the Russians. The disturbances were the result of Project
Suntan, an attempt by America’s air force to build a plane
fuelled with hydrogen. It nearly worked. The engines operated
successfully, but storing and supplying the hydrogen itself
proved too expensive for production to continue.
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2) Plant Growth Faster with Radio Frequencies
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By Jo Marchant, New Scientist
A dose of radio waves seems to encourage plant
seedlings to grow slightly faster, a find that, if confirmed,
could have applications from farming to medicine. Margaret Ahmad
at Sorbonne University in Paris, France, and her colleagues
exposed thale cress seedlings (Arabidopsis thaliana) to weak
pulses of radio frequency (RF) radiation at 7 megahertz, a
frequency normally used by amateur radio operators.
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3) New Blended Solar Cells Increase Efficiency and
Electricity Generation
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Scitech Daily, December 2020
Solar
cells have come a long way, but inexpensive, thin film solar cells
are still far behind more expensive, crystalline solar cells in
efficiency. Now, a team of researchers suggests that using two thin
films of different materials may be the way to go to create
affordable, thin film cells with about 34% efficiency." “Ten
years ago I knew very little about solar cells, but it became clear
to me they were very important,” said Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Evan Pugh
University Professor and Charles Godfrey Binder Professor of
Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State.
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4) Crucial Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy
Storage
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There is an
increasing need to look deeper into the technologies that make
renewable energy more possible - one of them is thermal energy
storage (TES).ES is a versatile technology that can be used to
address the mismatch in energy supply and demand. For example,
thermal energy supply from concentrated solar power is highly
susceptible to the changes in daily and seasonal solar radiation
i.e., the absence of sunlight at night and the longer nights in
winter. To make it efficient, it needs to supply uninterruptible
energy — this is where TES comes in.
This
article focuses on medium to high-temperature materials (140 -
400°C). They are promising in applications such as food industries,
dairy, metal preheating, and chemical processes.
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